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US5788053A
US5788053A US08/565,725 US56572595A US5788053A US 5788053 A US5788053 A US 5788053A US 56572595 A US56572595 A US 56572595A US 5788053 A US5788053 A US 5788053A
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
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  • the invention relates to a device for the separation of bodies.
  • Hollow bodies especially containers made of paper, plastic or metals, are frequently used as packaging material for various products. Owing to considerations concerning the economic transport of goods, it is attempted to construct particularly lightweight containers. In the foodstuffs industry, so-called “lost containers” are frequently utilized due to hygienic requirements. Packaging made of such hollow bodies is known to the consumer as light bottles, beakers or blister packaging.
  • a device as described above is known from the French patent application FR-PS 2 259 76, which separates loosely stacked plates of a similar kind. This takes place utilizing a rotating cone arranged in a fixed cylinder, the rotating direction of said cone being alternated during operation. To that end, a special mechanism for controlling the operating sequence is required.
  • the plates in question to be separated are massive metallic brake discs, which limit the separating speed through their weight.
  • a device is known from the DE-OS 24 39 136.
  • a coiler plate is provided to whose central area the bodies to be treated, mostly similar bodies featuring the shape of a parallelepiped, are applied.
  • a guide substantially fashioned from adjoining chords of a geometric spiral is arranged which starts close to the center of the coiler plate and whose curvature decreases outwardly and which pushes the objects outward so that they drop onto a conveyer belt over the rim of the coiler plate at an intended place.
  • a device has been known from the U.S. Pat. No. 5,248, 025 which features a coiler plate with a superimposed cone in its center To the surface generated by said cone, a number of identical objects, particularly tablets, is delivered. Said coiler plate is surrounded by a cylinder wall which comprises only one discharge aperture which is penetrated by a guide whose unobstructed width corresponds to the diameter of one tablet.
  • a separating device for cylindirical bodies of identical size and shape with elastically deformable walls has been known from the U.S. Pat. No. 4,768,643.
  • the bodies are fed to the separating device and separated standing upright, the bodies being conveyed on a conveyer belt comprising perforations and leading over a suction box, above and in small distance to which conveyer belt deflectors are arranged at a right angle.
  • the bodies delivered in an area close to the rim are picked up by the conveyer belt and discharged from it earlier than the other containers, which are fed in a particularly arranged formation.
  • a separating device for bodies of identical size and shape, particularly tablets in which the bodies to be separated are conveyed on a conveyor belt and, by means of a deflector rising up vertically and arranged diagonally to the conveying direction, are passed over to an arrangement of conveyor belts which run at different speeds and are arranged alongside said conveyer belt.
  • the deflector extends diagonally across this arrangement of conveyer belts, and adjoining laterally to said arrangement is a discharge conveyer belt running at a lower speed than the adjacent conveyer belt belonging to said arrangement.
  • a separation of the bodies takes place by means of the arrangement of several conveyer belts which can be driven at different speeds, in combination with the deflector.
  • the device in question may be designed comprising a straight conveying device featuring a conveying speed constant over its width due to its infinite radius and the resulting constant angular velocity.
  • a device for separating bodies of similar shape and size which comprises a conveying device for loosely supporting the bodies and conveying the loosely supported bodies substantially continuously and at a constant velocity in a conveying direction.
  • the conveying device has a feeding station for the bodies and two rims extending from the feeding station in the conveying direction, one of the rims being an unobstructed discharge rim.
  • At least two guiding devices are fixedly mounted above the conveying device at a distance substantially smaller than dimensions of the bodies extending perpendicularly to the conveying device, each guiding device comprising a deflector extending obliquely to the conveying direction and having an edge trailing the conveyed bodies in the conveying direction.
  • edges of the obliquely extending deflectors of the guiding devices immediately succeeding each other in the conveying direction face different rims and are spaced from the rims to define an unobstructed conveying path between the edges and the nearest rim, the nearest rim from which the deflector edge of a first one of the guiding devices is spaced being the unobstructed discharge rim.
  • the conveying device may be formed by a conveyer belt running at substantially constant speed, though conveying devices in the form of a roller-conveyer with rollers which can at least partly be propelled, as well as a chain conveyer or a jointed-band conveyer, are conceivable. Additionally, it is possible to provide a circular coiler plate. Basically, all conveyer devices may be used which comprise a substantially smooth surface in the conveying area, conveyer belts however being preferable for reasons of a straightforward design.
  • the deflector devices arranged above the conveyer device cause the bodies--possibly lying side-by-side--to be shoved toward a rim of the conveying device, resulting in the body lying closer to the rim falling off the conveying device in the case of bodies lying side-by-side. Additionally, by means of the deflectors running diagonally, it is ensured that bodies lying side-by-side collide with the deflectors at different instants and therefore are decelerated or deflected respectively at different moments, resulting in the bodies shifting in opposite directions and this way being separated.
  • the seperating device has the advantage that the bodies are deflected several times during their transport on the conveying device, ensuring a very extensive separation of the bodies, even if they slightly differ in size and shape.
  • the separating device comprises at least one further guiding device succeeding the one guiding device in the conveying direction and the edge of the deflector of each further guiding device is positioned gradually closer to the unobstructed discharge rim, the edge of the deflector of a last one further guiding device being spaced from the unobstructed discharge rim a distance substantially corresponding to a dimension of the largest ones of the bodies extending parallel to the conveying device the advantage arises that the size of bodies to be separated may be limited. Additionally, a very high degree of reliability of the separation of the bodies is reached this way.
  • the deflector of the other guiding device extending obliquely from the unobstructed discharge rim towards the other rim and ending before a center line of the conveying device falling off of bodies at the second rim of the conveying device can largely be prevented, a very extensive separation of the bodies resulting when they run off the deflector which ends before the center of the conveying device.
  • the other guiding device comprises a deflector area extending perpendicularly to the conveying direction and immediately adjoining the unobstructed discharge rim, and the deflector area may have a width corresponding substantially to one fourth the dimension of the largest ones of the bodies extending parallel to the conveying device.
  • each body fed onto the conveying device must touch a deflector of a guiding device, resulting in a separation of bodies possibly lying side-by-side.
  • the deflector of the other guiding device has a projected dimension measured perpendicularly to the conveying direction from the unobstructed discharge rim corresponding substantially to a width of the unobstructed conveying path between the edge of the deflector of the one guiding device and the unobstructed rim.
  • the one guiding device and the further guiding devices preferably comprise sliding areas adjoining the edges of the deflectors thereof, the sliding areas extending parallel to the conveying direction.
  • the separating device preferably further comprises a return mechanism arranged adjacent and below the unobstructed discharge rim, the return mechanism receiving bodies discharged over the unobstructed discharge rim and conveying the discharged bodies to the feed station. This allows a continuous operation of the device with low personnel costs.
  • a last one of the guiding devices in the conveying direction has a deflector obliquely extending towards a center line of the conveying device, and at least one sensing device is arranged in the range of the deflector of the last guiding device.
  • a sorting device may be installed, in which the separated bodies are led past a greater number of sensors one by one and are sorted according to certain criteria.
  • the guiding devices are mounted adjustably it is possible to adjust the angle which the deflectors of the guiding devices form with the conveying direction as well as the width of the unobstructed conveying paths between the trailing edges of the deflectors and the discharge rim of the conveying device according to the respective given requirements.
  • the device according to the invention comprises a conveying device 1 formed by a revolving conveyer belt, the conveying strand of the device running with substantially constant but adjustable speed in the conveying direction 2 from a feeding position 3 to a discharging point 4.
  • the guiding device 5 comprises a deflector 11 proceeding diagonally in the conveying direction 2 from an edge 10 of the conveying device 1.
  • the deflector 11 ends at a distance from one discharge rim 12 of the conveying device 1, so that an unobstructed conveying path for the bodies 9 to be separated remains between the trailing edge 13 of the deflector 11 and the discharge rim 12 of the conveying device 1.
  • a guiding device 6 Succeeding the guiding device 5 in the conveying direction 2 is a guiding device 6, proceeding substantially diagonally from the discharge rim 12 in the direction towards the center of the conveying device 1.
  • the guiding device 6 thereby comprises an area 15 adjoining immediately to the discharge rim 12 and proceedingding substantially at a right angle to the conveying direction 2.
  • This area 15 has a width which corresponds substantially to a fourth of the width or of the diameter of the largest among the bodies 9 to be separated.
  • Adjoining to the area 15 is a deflector 16 proceeding in the conveying direction diagonally towards the center of the conveying device 1 and ending before the center of the conveying device 1.
  • the width of the guiding device 6 projected perpendicularly to the conveying direction 2 covers the width of the unobstructed conveying path remaining between the trailing edge 13 of the guiding device 5 and the discharge rim 12.
  • a further guiding device 7 which proceeds in the conveying direction diagonally from the rim 10 toward the discharge rim 11.
  • the deflector 17 comes closer to the discharge rim 12 than the deflector 11 of the preceding guiding device 5, resulting in a smaller distance between the trailing edge 18 and the discharge rim 12 than in the area of the guiding device 5 and therefore resulting in a narrower conveying path.
  • a sliding area 19 proceeding in the conveying direction 2 adjoins to the trailing edge 18 of the deflector 17.
  • the guiding device 8 which proceeds diagonally from the discharge rim 12 toward the center of the conveying device 1.
  • a sensing device 23 for recognition is arranged which analyzes and respectively identifies the separated bodies 9 according to certain criteria, such as their color and the material they are made of.
  • the separated bodies 9 drop onto a processing device not shown in the drawing, such as a sorter which sorts the bodies 9 according to the criteria identified by the sensing device mentioned above and which is connected to said sensing device by signal lines not shown in the drawing.
  • a processing device not shown in the drawing such as a sorter which sorts the bodies 9 according to the criteria identified by the sensing device mentioned above and which is connected to said sensing device by signal lines not shown in the drawing.
  • a return mechanism 24 is arranged which is indicated in the drawing only by a line of arrows.
  • the return mechanism returns bodies 9 which have fallen off the discharge rim 12 to the feeding position 3 so that they are again fed to the separating device.
  • the bodies 9 supplied to the area of the feeding position 3 are deflected toward the discharge rim 12 by the guiding device 5, a portion of the bodies 9 thereby falling onto the return mechanism 24.
  • a portion of the bodies 9 reaches the guiding device 6 through the unobstructed conveying path between the trailing edge 13 and the discharge rim 12, the outward body 9 thereby hitting the area 15 of the guiding device 6 and as a result being decelerated, whereas the body lying inward is solely deflected towards the center of the conveying device 1.
  • a separation of the two bodies 9 intially lying side-by-side is achieved.
  • the bodies 9 are deflected toward the discharge rim 12 by the guiding device 7. Since the unobstructed conveying path between the trailing edge 18 and the discharge rim 12 is narrower than between the trailing edge 13 and the discharge rim 12, bodies 9 that possibly still lie side-by-side are dropped off the rim and returned to the feeding position 3 by the return mechanism 24, e.g. a conveyer belt.
  • the separated bodies 9 in consecutive order reach the guiding device 8 which deflects them towards the center of the conveying device 1, whereby they are lead past the sensing device 23 which analyzes and identifies them according to certain criteria.

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